Re: Git User's Survey 2009 partial summary, part 2 - from first 10

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2009, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID: <200908172339.08767.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200908171244.21693.johan@herland.net>

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Johan Herland wrote:

> On Monday 17 August 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> > 9) On which operating system(s) do you use Git?
> >    (Choice - Multiple answers)
> >
> > On Unix-based operating system you can get the name of operation
> > system by running 'uname'.
> 
> I find it interesting to compare the answers to this question against 
> previous years' surveys:
> 
> =============================================================
> Operating system            | 2009 [%] | 2008 [%] | 2007 [%]
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Linux                       |      88% |      86% |      90%
> MacOS X (Darwin)            |      44% |      47% |      15%
> MS Windows/Cygwin           |       9% |      10% |      >3%?
> MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW)  |      21% |      16% |      >0%?
> ............................|..........|..........|..........
> MS Windows (any)            |      27% |     <26%?|       9%

Whet might be also interesting is to have (also) bare numbers of responses. Percentage alone wouldn't tell full story. If you have (for example) 1000 Linux users, and there gets released native MacOS X binary installer, and here comes 500 MacOS X users, the percentage would decrease, because there are now more users, some of which are not Linux users.

================================================= Operating system | 2009 | 2008 | 2007# ------------------------------------------------- Linux | 2623 | 2434 | 582 MacOS X (Darwin) | 1304 | 1330 | 94 MS Windows/Cygwin | 279 | 297 | 22 MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW) | 625 | 452 | 1 ............................|......|......|...... MS Windows (any) | 820 | 749?| 58* ----------------------------+------+------+------ Answers | 2991 | 2842 | 645 =================================================

Footnotes:
[#] First download on current msysGit page is from Aug 2007
[*] Including unspecified version of Git for MS Windows.
[?] "Other, please specify" not included.  It also doesn't
    take into account overlap (one might use both msysGit and Cygwin
    version, e.g. on different computers)

-- 
Jakub Narebski

Git User's Survey 2009: http://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2009